Archetypes Quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“All mothers breed dead children. They shall, perhaps, live later. When no longer dead, they are born Not—by coincidence, by choice.”

— Mie Hansson

“In many ways, women are death’s natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but also a…

— Caitlin Doughty

Death is the mother of forms.

— Octavio Paz

“Who we are takes generations to create and doesn’t end with death.”

— Stanley Siegel

“mother, ‘I read somewhere that death comes to a person twice. Once when it happens, and once when everyone who remembers them has gone…

— Mary Paulson-Ellis

“At birth we become elements to entity, upon death the entity reverts to elements.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Only birth can conquer death—the birth , not of the old thing again, but of something new .”

— Joseph Campbell

“Death is the great disruptor; it thrusts us opposite life’s mirror, invites our truthful exploration, and reveals the naked truth; from which rebirth is…

— B.G. Bowers

“Death is the unknown in which all of us lived before birth.”

— Alan W. Watts

“No one should ever die alone. Rejoin the love of the goddess who made you. No longer a man, no longer a human, you…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Whether she is seen as the benevolent Mother of All Living, or the Goddess of bloody battle, or the Death Goddess, or the prophetic…

— Monica Sjöö

“So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other;”

— Lao Tzu